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Filed Aug. 18, 1923 IN V EN TORS A-PQZQI'SOII nd 660536 Peterson BYMMKQW ATTORNEY E clurin Patented June 23, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN A. PETERSON, OF sTOOKTON, AND GEORGE PETERSON, OE ELsINonE,

CALIFORNIA.-

SHOE.

Application filed August 18, 1923. Serial NO. 658,002.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWIN A. PETERSON and GEORGE PETERSON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Stockton and Elsinore, respectively,counties of. San Joaquin and Riverside, respectively, State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoes;and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which forma part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in the art of shoe making. Theobject of the invention is to produce a shoe structure which can bereadily made to conform to odd shaped feet, caused by bunions or otherdeformities, so as to provide an easy feeling and fitting shoe.

These objects we accomplish by building into the shoe an expansiblevamp, same being so constructed as to be neat in appearance, inexpensiveof construction, and still effective for the purposes desired.

In the drawings similar characters of ref erence indicate correspondingparts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is a top elevation of a mans shoe showing our improved structureembodied therein.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a ladys slip per showing the structuretherein in full lines, and a decorative covering therefor shown indotted lines.

Fig. 8 is a sectional view of our expansible vamp taken on a line 3-3 ofFig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on thedrawings, the numeral 1 designates the vamp of the shoe. In carrying outour improved invention we provide a longitudinal slit 2 in the top ofthe vamp 1, the same terminating adjacent or slightly into the tongue ofthe shoe. We then provide an expansible under flap or covering 3, havingits edges sewed to the edges of the slit 2 as at 4C. Adjacentthe edgesof the slit 2 are eyelets 5 through bunion or other deformity of thefoot of the wearer. When an easy fit ishad then the string or ribbon 6may be drawn up to close the slit 2 to a degree necessary to make aproper fit of the vamp, whereupon said string or ribbon is tied in theusual manner. The balance of the shoe structure is the same as isordinary.

The above describes the essential structure of our improved expansiblevamp, which constitutes the real invention involved. In constructing theshoe, however, any suitable decorative effects may be had or the expansible vamp construction may be covered with an artistic flap orextension as shown by the .dotted lines in Fig. 2. All of these,

however, are arbitrary by the manufacturer of the shoe and may beaccomplished in many different ways.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and useful anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A shoe having a primary vampbelow and independent of the fastening flapsof' the upper of the shoe, the primary vamp having an independentlongitudinal slit therein closed at each end, a secondary vamp disposedon the under side of the primary vamp and being secured all around tothe free edges of the slit, the secondary vamp being of a width to allowit to be expansible accordingly as the free edges of the slit are spreadapart or toward each other, and means for lacing the edges of the slittogether independently of other fastening or lacing means of the shoe.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures.

EDWIN A. PETERSON. GEORGE PETERSON.

